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Flora Nina Rey

November 24, 2014

4-AB Development Studies

Sir Danton Remoto

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(from: boxofficemojo.com)
We can start posing a variety of questions about what makes these films achieve such
great box office success by contrasting these films with one another. By observing their
commonalities and their differences, we could start hypothesizing what of these
qualities helped them achieve box office success. We could start with how they were
marketed. Do they sell a unique feature of their film when they advertise it? How much
does having famous directors, screenwriters, actors and actresses etc. contribute to the
films popularity? Is it marketed for certain demographics or did they cut through
across demographics? Did the film have an established franchise or fanbase, and do
degrees of familiarity matter? What about the timing of the film release? Does overseas
box office matter more than domestic gross for the success? How much do critical
ratings and reviews influence the success of films? How about word of mouth? There
are still a lot of questions to be asked.

We could ask about the content of the film. How much does a good screeenplay matter
for box office success? Do recent movies have to have CG Effects and animation to

achieve box office success; and do people anticipate this already if they want to be
entertained? A broader question, is, what engages them in a film; CG Effects, relatable
characters, a tightly knit plot? Are genre mash-ups more successful?

These are the kinds of speculations that we could assess and seek answers to and could
provide some explanation for the popularity of these films. We see that these ideas are
grouped together and they are interrelated and that they seek to explain the popularity
of movies in a way that could be founded, grounded and informed. 1

As we research more on why these movies are successful, we will gather more data
from existing research and therefore ask more questions, when we learn to analyze,
compare and evaluate2 these materials. There are always gaps that need to be filled out
because theory is always unstable and never ends.

These questions are theoretical because they ask a series of questions and guesses,
making up a group of interrelated ideas that seeks to provide an explanation about a
phenomenon. 3 These questions are also linked to a field of study, which could also
intersect, with other fields. We could see that there are different methodologies to be
involved in the questions we just asked, and cross-disciplinary measures often illustrate
this.

p. 6. What Is Theory. Campos.

p.7. ibid.
3 p.6. ibid.
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These are two of the results that appear when one does a Google search for racist
photo.

(from: google search/images)

Implicit in these images are a certain understanding of racism by some users of the
Internet. These are not really racist photographs, but manipulated images. In a sense, a
symbol for racism could be the racist image. The racism is overt in these photos
because they openly make judgments about certain groups of people (see picture 2),
metaphorically or symbolically, but which we can understand the content of. As with
(picture 1) they assume that these people share certain tendencies, which other people
do not share with them, exempting of factual basis.
definition of racism, I agree with the results.

It being consistent with my

5. Racism from what we could gather from the picture is to form moral judgments about
certain groups of people. They judge that members of those races share certain traits
and tendencies with each other that they do not share with other races.

The elements of picture 1 that make it racist is that generalizing that a black kid would
like chicken, watermelon and basketball. It also alludes to caveman-ism because of the
bone in his hair. We are going to focus on the Africa entry for picture 2. The image
signifies that people in Africa never stopped evolving from apes.

This is offensive because it leads to to a conception of intrinisically inferior races, or at a

personal level, to ignore the entirety of a person because our image of him/her is a
generalized image of his/her race.

Racism is value-laden because it is mostly morally-justified by racists. Racists often

make moral judgments about a certain group of people. They judge by some arbitrary
evidence or unquestioned custom that members of those races share certain
characteristics, i.e blacks are more aggressive, less intelligent.

These justifications are only factual claims that are not supported by evidence.
Furthermore, this often leads to unfair treatment. We could see how extremely the
Ferguson shootings can demonstrate just this. Or one even closer to our hearts, that
OFWs are immediately pegged as domestic helpers or nurses overseas, at the very least,
it could give us certain inconveniences and allow for discriminatory practices with only
the stereotype as basis.